It is a fact that UGC has recognised philosophy as a discipline and it is being offered by several Universities across the country. The Government of India too has assigned special status to the discipline by establishing the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, and by including philosophy as a subject in UPSC and PSCs examinations.

Objectives

i) To provide opportunity to candidates in ODL System, pursue studies in the discipline of Philosophy.
ii) To meet the growing demand from several institutions across the country to have the discipline of Philosophy in ODL System particularly to cater to those in-service to pursue studies in the subject.
iii) To provide opportunity to candidates from ODL System who desire to pursue studies in Philosophy so as to appear for civil service, UPSC, PSC and other competitive exams.
iv) To provide career prospects for students from ODL System in the discipline of Philosophy.
v) To offer courses and programmes of study in Philosophy in par with UGC and Conventional Universities within the country and abroad.
vi) To provide opportunity to students in ODL System who may prefer inter-disciplinary approach while pursuing undergraduate programmes by opting courses from the discipline of Philosophy.
vii) To facilitate residential institutions involved in providing quality education in Philosophy to acquire university degrees.
viii) To develop quality material in the discipline of Philosophy from IGNOU which are much sought after by students, teachers and institutions of higher education across the board

First Year

CourseCode

Course Name

Credits

MGP-005

Introduction to Peace and Conflict Resolution

4

MPY-001

Indian Philosophy

8

MPYE-001

Logic

4

MPYE-002

Ethics

4

MPYE-003

Epistemology

4

MPYE-004

Philosophy of Human Person

4

MPYE-005

World Religions

4

MPYE-006

Dalit Philosophy

4

MPYE-007

Research Methodology in Philosophy

4

Second Year

CourseCode

Course Name

Credits

MLSC-020

Dissertation

4

MPY-002

Western Philosophy

8

MPYE-008

Metaphysics

4

MPYE-009

Philosophy of Science an Cosmology

4

MPYE-010

Philosophy of Religion

4

MPYE-011

Philosophy of Arts (Aesthetics)

4

MPYE-012

Tribal Philosophy

4

MPYE-013

Philosophy of Technology

4

MPYE-014

Philosophy of Mind

4

MPYE-015

Gandhian Philosophy

4

MPYE-016

Aurobindo Philosophy

4

Medium of Instruction: English

Evaluation

The evaluation consists of two parts: i) continuous evaluation through assignments, and ii) term-end examination. In the final result, all the assignments of a course carry 30 per cent weightage while 70 per cent weightage is given for term-end examination. University follows grading system for continuous evaluation as well as term-end examination. It is done on a five-point scale using letter grades, A,B,C,D,E. The university has decided to provide numerical marking also in the grade card and award of division for the Master’s Degree Programme.

You are required to score at least 40% marks (Grade D) in both continuous evaluation (assignments) as well as term-end examination of each course. In the overall computation also you must get at least 40% marks (Grade D) in each course to claim the M.A. degree. The scores of continuous evaluation and term-end examination are not complementary to each other for qualifying a course.